Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
38 (1828): 602
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone
, asked that two of JB
's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 38 (1828): 602 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Butler | They were outraged, and at once sought legal advice from Edmund Burke
(who had experienced image problems of a not dissimilar kind). Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 83-4 Brideoake, Fiona. “Keep Yourself in Your Own Persons, Where You Are: The Ladies of Llangollen and Queer Self-Fashioning”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting. |
Fictionalization | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among many less formal honours during the ladies' lifetimes, the most extraordinary was LEB
's award of a French, ancien régime, military medal: the Croix St Louis. It is shown in a famous portrait of... |
Literary responses | Caroline Clive | The volume firmly established CC
's reputation as a gifted and talented writer. She was delighted when John Gibson Lockhart
wrote (under the impression that he was addressing a man) that he was deeply impressed... |
Travel | Maria Edgeworth | ME
(with all her writing about Ireland long behind her) visited Killarney in County Kerry with Sir Walter Scott
and J. G. Lockhart
. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 215, 420 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | |
Publishing | Maria Edgeworth | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. Farrell, John P. “Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore”. The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, Vol. 37 , pp. 28-37. 36 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | Among AG
's acquaintances in her later years were Felicia Hemans
and Thomas Campbell
. Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96. 293 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Charlotte Guest | That year CG
met the |
Reception | Margaret Holford | It is clear from her correspondence with Joanna Baillie how much Margaret Holford the younger longed for success, and how much persistent energy she devoted to pursuing it. When in 1837-8 John Gibson Lockhart
published... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Political economy was controversial in itself, and the potentially scandalous exposition by a young unmarried female of matters having to do with population control provided grist for the mills of hostile reviewers. HM
recollected hearing... |
Reception | Hannah More | From her youth, HM
tended to be regarded as a formidable person. Those describing her reached for martial metaphors. During her lifetime her works aroused intense admiration and opposition. She was one of the twenty-four... |
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